UniMAP wins big in London

KANGAR: A researcher at Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) has made Malaysia proud when he was named the winner of the Special Diamond Award, the highest award at the British Invention, Innovation and Technology Show (BIS) 2011 in London.

Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri Abdullah, who is also a senior lecturer at UniMAP's School of Materials Engineering, was honoured for his invention billed as “a novel and environmental-friendly” cement and concrete product.

The product, which also won the gold award at the exhibition, was produced following a joint research with UniMAP vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Kamarudin Hussin.